Rockstar dropped a teaser with six songs, and the names were there: Rauw Alejandro, the Puerto Rican reggaeton star, contributing "Macacoa 2000," an old-school, gritty reggaeton track that winks at the genre's golden era, and the Argentine duo CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso showing up on "Sexy Magic," a house cut alongside PinkPantheress, Fred again.., and the French producer Étienne de Crécy. Remezcla reported it first, and Vibe filled out the rest of the compilation's names: Travis Scott, Morgan Wallen, Keith Richards. Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album will carry 34 songs made specifically for the game and arrives November 19, alongside Vice City and Leonida, the map Rockstar has spent years building.
A credit is not the same as actually being heard
Here's the question neither of those reports stopped to ask: does this change anything for Rauw Alejandro right now, or is it just a headline? The numbers say it changes nothing yet. Morgan Wallen already has "Last Thing You Need," his song from the soundtrack, sitting at number one in the United States. Rauw, on that same compilation, doesn't appear anywhere in the U.S. top 50. Not a single spot. The press photo puts them on equal footing; the chart doesn't.
What is actually charting for Rauw right now has nothing to do with GTA VI. "Dile a El" sits at number 22 in Argentina, 44 in Colombia and 43 in the Dominican Republic. "Qué Pasaría...," his track with Bad Bunny, is at 45 and 46 in those same two markets. "DILUVIO" is at 37 in Argentina. And on the global reggaeton chart, "Todo De Ti" — a song from 2021 — is still alive at number 19, while "Desesperados," from the tail end of that same era, sits at 43. "Macacoa 2000" doesn't show up on any of those lists, because outside of Rockstar's trailer, it doesn't exist yet.
"Macacoa 2000" is a gesture, not a release
That makes sense, because "Macacoa 2000" — as Remezcla describes it — is built as a tribute: dirty, old-school reggaeton, a snapshot of the genre at its rawest, from the 2000s. It isn't a single engineered to compete for streams this week; it's a piece of sonic set design for a video game map. That makes it interesting as an artistic gesture and close to irrelevant as an immediate commercial move. The full album doesn't come out until November. Until then, the song isn't competing on any chart, because in practice, the average listener can't get to it.
Rauw Alejandro contributes "Macacoa 2000," a throwback, OG reggaeton sucio track that nods to the genre's golden age.
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso bet differently
The Argentine duo made a riskier move than Rauw did. "Sexy Magic" pulls them completely out of the Buenos Aires trap scene that made them famous and drops them into a house track with PinkPantheress, Fred again.. and Étienne de Crécy, none of whom have any connection to the Latin urban circuit. It's a bet aimed at a club in London or Berlin at 3 a.m., not a reggaeton party. They also don't turn up on any of the charts tracked this week, which tracks: neither Rauw nor CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso have a soundtrack song actually circulating yet. The only thing circulating is the news that they'll be on it.
Rockstar is selling merchandise, not music, for now
Consequence reported, in a separate news cycle, that Rockstar has already put a $400 collector's set for GTA VI on sale — one that doesn't include the game itself. Oakley sunglasses, a New Era cap, a crossbody bag, a keychain, a poster of Leonida. All of it inspired by a fictional in-game TV show, Macca the Gator. The company is charging $400 for caps and keychains tied to Vice City weeks before a single soundtrack song is available to stream in full. Rauw and CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso are part of that packaging for now, not part of a commercial run anyone can measure in streams.
November is what actually matters
The real test lands on November 19, when the game and the album drop together and "Macacoa 2000" has to compete for real against "Dile a El" and the rest of Rauw's catalog for space on the charts in Argentina, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and, if it gets there, the United States. If the song lands on any top 50 that day once the initial launch noise settles, then the credit will have amounted to more than a press photo. If it stays buried under Wallen, Travis Scott and the rest of the soundtrack's English-language roster, it will remain what it is today: one more line in a biography, not a move in a career.
